September 22, 1888

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Features

Compressed Steel Car Wheels

What is the Best Insulation?

Additional Postal Facilities Needed

An Improved Coal Chute

An Improved Stop and Waste Faucet

Improved Electrical Shoal Water Indicator

An Improved Cartridge Shell Cutter

An Improved Punch for Bank Checks, Etc.

An Improved Cut-Off Valve Gear

A Finger Shield for Musicians

An Improved Store Service Apparatus

An Improved Letter Box Door Plate

An Improved Tobacco Pipe

A Gunboat for the Great French Exposition

An Improved Rail Punch

An Improved Drill Grinder

An Improved Pug Mill

Photographic Notes - September 22, 1888

Simple Experiments in Physics

By M. Hopkins

Engineering Inventions - September 22, 1888

Miscellaneous Inventions - September 22, 1888

To Inventors - September 22, 1888

Departments

Letters

Correspondence - September 22, 1888

Departments

Business and Personal - September 22, 1888

Notes and Queries - September 22, 1888

Index of Inventions - September 22, 1888

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